Type Office Antenna spire 161 m (528 ft) Floor count 40 Floors 39 Architectural style Modern architecture | Completed 2001 Roof 161 m (528 ft) Height 161 m Opened 2001 Architect Jean-Paul Viguier | |
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Location La Défense (Courbevoie) Owner Lone Star Real Estate Fund III Similar La Défense, Tour Areva, Tour Majunga, Tour EDF, Tour Ariane | ||
Cœur Défense is an office skyscraper in La Défense, the high-rise business district west of Paris, France. With 350,000 m² (3.77 million sq. ft), it is the building with the most floor space in Europe along with the Palace of Parliament in Bucharest.
Map of Tour Coeur D%C3%A9fense, 92400 Courbevoie, France
Coeur Défense was built in 2001, replacing the former Esso Tower, the first building of the old generation to be destroyed in La Défense. Cœur Défense is a large complex made of two main bodies connected to one another by a smaller body and seating on a wide basis made of several smaller bodies. The edges of all bodies are rounded. The cladding is white, with large windows. An electronic system monitors white blinds which can be drawn or opened all together at the same time.
The two main bodies are 161 m (528 ft) tall each. Both of them are relatively thin as their width is only 24 m (79 ft), and they are out of line with each other, so that sunlight can reach all parts of the building. Lehman Brothers' €2.1bn top-of-the-market purchase of Coeur Défense, could become Europe's largest distressed property sale. Due to falling property values, and the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, the transaction is under stress. The Borrower who owns the building has placed itself under sauvegarde